The eyes of SEC recruiters now upon Texas

1:53 AM,
Sep. 29, 2011

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This week's announcement that the Southeastern Conference will add Texas A&M in 2012 has opened up a fetile new recruiting area to SEC schools.

"We've always recruited Texas, and now with the TV exposure there and a team there, I think it's a natural thing to go back in there a little bit more," Ole Miss head coach Houston Nutt said Wednesday during the SEC's weekly teleconference.

Tennessee head coach Derek Dooley recruited Texas as an LSU assistant coach under Nick Saban seven years ago, so he knows the difficulty of selling a program to recruits who grew up hearing about the Longhorns, Aggies ...